Daily State Sentinel

The Republican Position not to be Defined
As yet in the Fall Elections.

The Democratic Central Committee of Pennsylvania has issued an address, in which they talk confidently of carrying the State. They accuse the Republicans of "failing to meet the questions of the living present, and fearing to face the realities of the immediate future," which is too true; but we imagine the Pennsylvania Republicans will keep their legs till they whip the enemy, and define their position afterward. Not the true order of things, but not necessarily fatal. -Springfield (Mass.) Republican.

The New York World comments as follows upon these declarations of the Springfield Republican:

"The journal from which the above is copied is the cleverest exponent of Republicanism in New England. It is neither intensely radical, nor the opposite, but aims to represent what little there may be of good in that organization. Its chief claim to excellence, however, is its independence upon cliques in its own party. All this gives significance to its criticism in respect to the attitude of the Republican party in those States in which elections occur this autumn. The Republican admits that it is 'too true' that the Republican party is 'failing to meet the questions of the living present.'

"This decaying and decayed condition of the once powerful Republican organization, as manifested in the utterances of its party leaders, would be amusing if it were not so sad to see a party assuming to be based on moral ideas, in such an attitude of trembling prostration as to be afraid to tell the world what its basis ideas are.

"This doe-faced and double-faced policy of the Republicans will, however, not save them either in New York this autumn, or in Washington next winter.

"Carrying water on both shoulders is not conducive to freedom of movement and celerity of action in political canvass. It is not calculated, either, to inspire enthusiasm among the masses. And we have daily witness how that the disingenuousness of the Syracuse platform so hampers and constrains the two leading Republican newspaper organs in this city, the Tribune and Times, that neither of them dares to pitch zealously into the fight, for fear that one will be, unawares, firing broadsides into the other.

Nothing but the most absolute harmony and perfect identity of purpose and action ever enables the opposition to overcome the Democracy in New York State. To do it this autumn, everybody sees and feels is an impossibility, unless the Democratic party, by their own indolence and neglect of local organization, defeat themselves. Thus much for New York.

"In the matter of the contest at Washington next winter, the Republicans are, by their attempt in the fall elections to mislead the masses, adjusting a rope around the necks of themselves which President Johnson will not fail to use if occasion requires. Before Congress meets, it is believed that the President will be able to issue a proclamation (and the Republicans have educated the country to put great faith in the legal efficacy of executive proclamations), announcing the rebellion ended in all the seceded States; the military power withdrawn and civil power restored to the State authorities; and informing the country that the Governors elected in those States have authority to affix the broad seal of the State to the credentials of its senators and representatives, who will appear and claim seats in the Federal Senate or House, as the case may be. These senators and representatives, thus presenting themselves in Washington, will be the result of President Johnson's labors of restoration. They will be selected and elected in strict, perfect and minute obedience to executive requirements. The President urges, therefore, upon Congress prompt admission of these senators and representatives, and points to the declarations made by the Republicans in the Eastern States, or rather to their failure to denounce his plan of restoration in their State Conventions, as an estoppel against Republican resistance in Congress. What answer can either these conservative or radical Republicans make?

"The Springfield Republican will then find that defining their position after the fall elections is not only not the true order of things," but is "necessarily fatal." The Republicans will then discover that dishonesty is always bad policy."